BDSM, Becoming And The Flows Of Desire Carlström, Charlotta Culture Health & Sexuality

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BDSM, Becoming And The Flows Of Desire - Carlström, Charlotta  Culture Health & Sexuality, # 4, 21, Pages 404 415, 2018 Jul Taylor And Francis To cite this article: Charlotta Carlström (2018): BDSM, becoming and the flows of desire, Culture, Health & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2018.1485969  To link to this article:  https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2018.148596 Abstract: Based on a five-year qualitative ethnographic study of Bondage and Discipline/Dominance and Submission/Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) in Sweden, this paper examines the process of becoming among BDSM practitioners. In-depth interviews were completed with 29 self-defined BDSM practitioners, and their accounts were analysed using thematic analysis. Focusing on the Deleuzian concept of becoming, BDSM is understood as a dynamic and collective phenomenon closely connected to fantasies, memories and longing, and enabled through flows of desire. Practising BDSM can be understood as a process of increasing expansion, creation and connection, in which desire is seen not as something we lack or need but rather as a process of striving and self-enhancement. Exploring the becoming process more fully can provide a better understanding as to why some people choose to practise BDSM.